So, how long have YOU been using Ableton Live?

[tedlogan]

I started with version 4, pirate copy. Then I bought 5. I mainly used it to record audio in a very traditional way ala guitars, bass, vocals, with no VSTs coming from a tracker background. Used trackers since I was 12. Live obviously blew me away 13 years later due to its intuitive excellence, especially compared to Mod Edit. I couldn't believe how easy operations were now, like a simple volume fade did not require typing in alphanumerical values into a column. It was heaven, and slightly overwhelming - like being given the ability to fly all of a sudden.

I blindly continued using it for a few years after following the pretty solid intro tutorial, and then the plague (games - Left 4 Dead1 & 2) corrupted me, completely consuming my time, with my one-track mind. This plague ate about 5 years of my life, without Live being used or any music being made at all, apart from playing guitar.

After this half-decade waste of time, I upgraded to Live 9 along with Push. Whole new amazing world since then combining Live, Push and u-he, freeing myself from gaming addiction (I don't play anything at all since then). Learning a lot in this new period where previously I'd stubbornly not learn about anything production-side.

[Mister Natural]

I remember reading someone fucking RAVING about v6.0 & took the plunge
really worked at connecting with it for prolly 3 yrs before I was/able to compose at will

peace

[Machinesworking]

Bought v3 in 03, roughly 3-4 months later v4 came out.
Right before I met up with Urs Heckmann and one of the developers from Ableton in a bar in Berlin.
Urs chided the developer for Live's lack of virtual instrument and AU support. Guy did a great job of keeping mum.

Spent most of the time in Logic, but wrote a few decent songs in Live 4.
Eventually dumped Logic for Digital Performer, and started using Live a bit more like half the time.

I'm actually really liking Live 9, despite the browser limitations, and despite Pushes limitations I like it as well.
It's funny, the Remote SL MKII has a really good Live mode, so to a degree Push is mostly good for clip launching, as a drum machine and quickly adding clip automation in, but it does those things really well.

[Machinesworking]

2004 was the year, and we wore onions on our belts, which was the style at the time.

Right up there as one of my favorite quotes from grandpa Simpson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au3qpJG9vVk

[yur2die4]

I want the sounds from Henke's initial Operator presentation. If I recall, they were pretty groovy and sleek.

[nonanon]

A copy of Live Lite 4 GTR came with an M-Audio Black Box. Having never used a DAW or deck, I was still multi-tracking parts within minutes. I was positive that Live Lite 4 was all I'd ever need.

[commuter]

i started with LIVE 1.5 for live performance only (i was producing with another host : Synapse Orion) in 2002
i ditched Orion in 2004, when LIVE 4 introduced midi and Vsti..

[jbodango]

Version 3 which was around October or November of 2003.

[slatepipe]

Crack of version 3, then I bought version 4, 2004

[Idonotlikebroccoli]

Since 2005, although it seems like I didn't make any full tracks with it until 2007.

Before that, I used Reason from 2005-2006, FL Studio from 2004-2005, and Dance eJay 3/4/6 from 2001-2004

[Ubik]

I've been using since v.5 lite (got it with my midi keyboard) with the band i was playing with. I bought the upgrade to live 6 later.

[redglass]

Started with Version 5 in summer 2006, going away from Nuendo (great DAW, but version 3.0 was painstaking to work with VST instruments). Still working with Live, but added other DAWs in my workflow: Reaper, PT (Post-Pro) & Sibelius (orchestral stuff & music education).

[crumhorn]

version 4 - whenever that was.....

[Stace30]

Using Live since v5 in 2006, used Reason before that (had a go on Cubase, Acid Pro & Sonar but went with Reason then Live then both together! I do have Cubase 5 too tho) Yeah been using Live for a while now, no number one hits yet tho???!!!

[TomViolenz]

no number one hits yet tho!

pffft, noob